Hasbro Made-to-Order Figures

How did we get here? Is there talk of doing these super-obscure characters as MTO figures?

It's absolutely amazing to me that some of these characters were made into action figures. Most of whom have had no history in comics since.
 
altcunningham said:
I only ever saw him in one comic where he was standing in a helicopter.
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That's it?!?! Standing in a helicopter?!?! The guy's the walking embodiment of Michelangelo's famous quote "maybe all that hardware's for making coleslaw" and they didn't even use him?

The Dark Riders I can understand them spending some time on. Tusk was one that made it. The others were ubiquitous going around judging people. Judgemental pricks. I saw them off Mesmero, fight Cable, Cyclops, Wolverine all on separate occasions. They even judged their own team members by offing Foxbat. I think they were even more judgy than Apocalypse himself!
 
Remember even as a kid wondering why they were doing these characters I'd never heard of when they were ignoring Mastermind, Mesmero, Living Monolith, Vanisher, Unus. etc... let alone dozens of other way better known, cooler Marvel bad guys.

I do think Comcast was eventually used some in Deadpool comics and not as a ridiculous joke character. Also, I believe he's been portrayed as being native to India. In that sense, Legends could stand to include some non-American/Canadian characters. I'd be all over the new foreign heroes introduced in the first Contest of Champions mini-series and subsequent creations like New Warrior's Timeslip (India), Egypt's Zephyr or Scarlet Scarab, England's Albion, France's Guillotine, Irish Wolfhound from Guardians of the Galaxy, Vormund (German) or some of the Japanese Big Hero Six.
 
hmmberto said:
You guys are speaking to me. I would lose my shit for figures of Killspree, Krule, Comcast, and some of the other randos who somehow made it onto Toy Biz's radar for figures. I can think of exactly one story each where those guys appeared, and I have no idea if they had any other relevance. But who cares, because their 5" figures were awesome. I need a ML Krule with his insane ponytail mace thing!
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I would buy a Krule figure IMMEDIATELY.
 
TheGillMan said:
All I know is that T-Mobile was much cooler when her codename was Sprint!
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Was T-Mobile's power set adding fraudulent charges to one's monthly phone bill, "forgetting" to add phone trade-in credits, and protracting hold time on customer service calls to infinity, or is reality intruding on comic book fantasy again?
 
tasmaniantwister said:
Remember even as a kid wondering why they were doing these characters I'd never heard of when they were ignoring Mastermind, Mesmero, Living Monolith, Vanisher, Unus. etc... let alone dozens of other way better known, cooler Marvel bad guys.

I do think Comcast was eventually used some in Deadpool comics and not as a ridiculous joke character. Also, I believe he's been portrayed as being native to India. In that sense, Legends could stand to include some non-American/Canadian characters. I'd be all over the new foreign heroes introduced in the first Contest of Champions mini-series and subsequent creations like New Warrior's Timeslip (India), Egypt's Zephyr or Scarlet Scarab, England's Albion, France's Guillotine, Irish Wolfhound from Guardians of the Galaxy, Vormund (German) or some of the Japanese Big Hero Six.
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All the characters they were putting out toys for were relatively current. This led to some serious flash-in-the-pan picks, but they had all recently appeared in comics. Many of the more "classic" ones you mentioned hadn't been in a comic for 20 or 30 years at that point. I was a pretty avid reader at the time, and I don't think any of the characters Toy Biz was putting out surprised me. If they had put out someone like Vanisher or Unus, I would have been very confused. 60s X-Men just never, ever spoke to me, though.
 
I loved that Killspree figure when I was a kid! I’d definitely buy an action figure of him. And Senyaka, Comcast, and Eric the Red.


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